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area. if you go to glide at 9:00 or 10:00 on sunday , if you go to scott's sunday, monday, tuesday, 6:00 until 9:00. if you don't go to those menus, you are missing a great legend. he is at a number of other venues but that is where you'll find him all the time for over 30 years. i say he has been in the bay area over 50 doing what he does. we are blessed to have john turk. ♪ ♪
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>> what a blessing. great to have you. i saw you probably 40 something years ago. you are young men. but john turk and the third street annex. you would play the different clubs. and i saw you later at glide . tell us about yo >> i actually started playing in the oakland area around 1965 or 1966 with the named johnny hartman. he was a guitar player and an organ player and flute player. and he wanted to expand his band and he only had a saxophone , drums and him . he wanted to add an instrument. and i guess he had heard about me and one night i came and
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sat with his band and i guess i did okay. so he hired me. and we played at this place called the showcase. many moons ago. and he decided he did not want to be a bandleader. so the three of us that were left , we got together and fans are own trio. i bought and oregon and we got busy. >> when did the trumpet come in? the trumpet and piano at the same time. >> actually he saw me do it. and he was known for being a little late. he started being late at this particular gig. i think we were at the showcase.
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he hired me as a trumpet player. but he started taking advantage of the fact that i could play the organ so he came in late and we played the first 10 or 15 minutes. and i got pretty good at it. i kept listening to my jimmy smits records. >> when you call your answering service, i think that is jimmy smith. >> that is me. >> okay. >> when he decided to go solo that is when the third of us that were left formed a band and that was it. >> you have performed with a lot of great artists and we will talk about that in the next segment. we have a minute left in the segment. send us out with something. ♪ ♪
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i hope you have been listening to john turk. he is a legend here in the bay area and grew up in valejo. has been playing for all the greats that we could name from the james to new roles, to bb king. you could see him on a regular basis at glide. that 9:00 and 11:00. tell us how did that begin ? >> it was fate and a fluke. i was supposed to just be there for two weeks. choir director was playing with a r&b group over in south africa for a couple of weeks and while he was gone , they needed somebody to play keyboards . a buddy of
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mine , that played at glide already asked me if i wanted to do the gig for a couple of weeks and i said, okay. i played and , the reverend did not know i played the trumpet. i played the trumpet and he like to that. i guess he liked it. directed dorsey, when he came back , they did not fire me. i stayed and i stayed. >> it has been quite an experience and people come from all over the world to celebrate as well as the programs. a lot of people come for the glide
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ensemble. how did that managed to develop ? >> they always had a choir but as time went on , we expanded the band. we started with the saxophone. one of the best saxophone players anywhere , charles mcneil. i had him to come in because we were getting ready to make a record in cecil liked that saxophone and that trumpet. we were getting ready to do another cd and i said, why do we add a trombone and that is when joe berman came in . we ended up with three horns . we have had them ever since. 15 or 20 years.
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>> when it comes to the choir. i had the privilege of being there and i have seen them and come to the choir rehearsal's . it seems like you rehearsed throughout the night. how do you come on sunday and select a song? >> first i have to see what soloists are there. and i tried to set the mood for the preacher to preach. i think that is my primary job. first you want to wake the people up see you don't want to start with anything slow. and the next song you cannot keep hitting them like that. got to wake them up and calm them down. and then fire them back
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up. that is my way of doing it. so far it has worked. something before the preacher preaches , that is really something. >> you have to be intune with that spirit as you go along to discern what song it is going to be >> you are trying to bring the people in . they are already in the building but you want to bring them into the spirit of what is going on at glide. >> i have read a lot about you. the secular music and the spiritual music and some
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people like to keep that divorce . but you have learned to combine the two. anywhere you have done that successfully ? clues to how you do that . >> i never think about it. to me, i am doing what i am supposed to do, play music. and i feel like a plumber would if it was going to fix her plumbing . >> do what you're called to do. >> fix somebody's plumbing. you don't ask what religion they are. that is how i feel about what i do. i am a musician. i am doing what i'm supposed to do. >> we are blessed because of paco and carla. we would not
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am ron swisher. you have heard great sounds if you have been with us. i have read about john turk. his mom and dad were great and they introduced him at the age of five . he has been playing since five and mastering instruments. even has his young son playing the drums, is quite good. and he has named miles after someone we know. tell us about your family's influence. >> i first started -- my mom. she played in the church. and she did not play by ear. she played by reading music. she showed me a few things, the scales and how to read music. and i had a crazy cousin . cousin leroy. leroy played the piano. but he played
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boogie-woogie. and he showed me how to -- ♪ anyway. i got into it. once i heard that boogie-woogie and it was all over for me. >> what was your dad's influence? >> my dad is the one that loved the music so much he would go by the records. my mother did not buy the records. he would get the records . i would just sit there and listen to them for hours. >> how did you manage to get with people like bb king and go around the world ? >> at the time there was a
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club owned by don barksdale. called the showcase. i had two clubs, the showcase and the sportsman. he would have bobby in one and lou when the other. and by us playing at the showcase, at that time , i got to play with everybody that was big. they called at the jutland circuit. coming from valejo, i thought i was, in heaven. i got to play with and talk with the greatest r& b entertainers in the world. it does not get much better than that. >> charles musselwhite . >> i played regularly with him.
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>> it was great for me. >> in the travels i think i ever did you say one of the most difficult things about being a musician is the travels. you don't miss that? >> no. i like to go to bed in my own bed. and at the time i had two kids and i never will forget i played at a theater in chicago. and i got to meet some members of the band with boyd price. >> another legend. >> some of those musicians had been on the road . for years. >> he is still living i think. >> and they only have seen their kids like once a year ,
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twice a year. coming through the town. i did not want to do that and arrive on a bus. >> you mentioned earlier that you first have to check out the solos before you select certain songs . one of the solos is your wife. >> yes . >> you have been married 20 years . >> should have been . 10. i'm not saying it because she is my wife but she can really sink. -- sing . >> we heard you at the unitas -- united methodist church last month and we heard her at the choir and all that you bring. when i go and see you
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